| UN
Volker Turk
Collaborated
in Banning
Press now
Seeks
Swiss
Funds to Keep
Palais
Staff Say
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
June 22 – How corrupt
and decrepit has the UN system
become under Antonio Guterres,
in this case due to Guterres?
Today's example is again from
the Office of the High
Commission for Human Rights,
to which Guterres appointed
his unqualified crony Volker
Turk more than two years ago.
From OHCHR staff:
Dear Mr Lee Staff in OHCHR is
tired of nepotism and
management incompetence. Under
Volker Turk OHCHR will lose
Palais Wilson, it’s historic
HQ, and many jobs but not
because of Donald Trump as
Turk claims. The truth is that
OHCHR had a 60 million deficit
already at the end of 2024. 60
million of wasted tax payers
moneys. Since his appointment
almost 3 years ago, Turk has
thrown money around in useless
iniciatives like UDHR75 or his
innovation hub with no
oversight nor
accountability. It is
not Donald Trump it is
management incompetence and
nepotism, hiring friends,
hiring spouses, hiring
unqualified persons (Nada Al
Nashif and Kim Taylor have a
lot to answer).
There are so many
examples, director Maarit
Kohonen husband went from P1
and P4 in record time,
unqualified Matthias Behnke
brags a sour his friendship
with Turk to become a regional
director, Kim Taylor lied
about her PHP, lied to get
whistleblower Emma Reilly
fired and hired her boyfriend.
More examples to follow. Now
Turk wants to open a regional
office in his home town Vienna
as part of his exit strategy
when there is already a
regional office in
Brussels. Staff keeps
getting sacrificed, relocated
and fired while money is
wasted. It is not Donald
Trump, it is corruption.
And Switzerland
now is announcing a rescue
package for the UN in Geneva.
Well, Switzerland should not
put taxpayer moneys without
full investigation into
reports of nepotism and
mismanagement in OHCHR. Help
us Mr Lee to expose
corruption."
Will try, have applied
to re-enter.
Turk as a staffer
on Guterres' 38th floor did
nothing when his boss Guterres
had the critical Press roughed
up and thrown out. There
has been no due process since,
not even a response to Guterres'
Melissa Fleming to a pro bono inquiry
for Inner City Press from the
law firm Quinn Emanuel. Some
human righters.
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